Ghost, thanks for the video. I had never, ever heard of the puffy, fuzzy version.

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Dotsie wrote:

Catch-up wrote:I'm hoping to get printable shrinky dink paper at the art store. I lost a whole hour last night downloading shrinky dink charm PDFs.

I have no idea what any of this means

Glad I'm not the only one.

Basically, it's just plastic that shrinks in the oven. You can punch a hole in it and make a little charm. I have no explanation for my behavior. I saw one really cute set on a Disney site and the next thing I knew it was an hour later. I thought the girls would get a kick out of them and pictured us making little charm bracelets out of them. Then I remembered that someone had given us a set of horse ones years ago that we never used. Pulled them out - the girls were not at all interested. It's kind of like that Disney 3D papercraft obsession I've got. I've downloaded tons of them, have even made a few, but I'm terrible at it. We'll never do most of them but I can't resist downloading them when a new one comes out.

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:

I downloaded some of those Disney Papercraft things when you first mentioned them and never got around to doing them.

Years ago when the Disney film, The Black Hole came out, they were giving Black Hold Shrinky Dinks away in Shreddies cereal. I seem to remember that you could colour them in before shrinking them - but it's so long ago that I may have imagined that.

The horse ones the girls have need to be colored in, so did the fairy ones they did years ago. The ones I downloaded are already in color, so maybe that takes some of the fun out of it? I love the 3D papercrafts! I would do more of them if I weren't so bad at it. Ava occasionally enjoys doing them and does a much better job! They eventually get squished somehow, then you have to toss them. I also have some of the dragons from How To Train Your Dragon. Toothless looks great when it's finished!

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:

Tomorrow I'll be hopping over to see the boyfriend whom I shall from here on out refer to as "Mr Wizzard" (who I've gotten to start reading Guards! Guards! I'll convert 'im yet, dammit ) so I'll be spending an intimate hour on the train with my old friend, The Princess Bride